Someone with that kind of deformity would probably be wearing serious orthopedic shoes rather than stylish boots (with what appeared to be normal wear patterns).
There is nothing convincing in the video.
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Leg-lengthening used to be all the rage among charismatics for a few years in the mid-seventies. It seemed that every person in attendance at every meeting had unevenly-sized legs, and they always got lengthened properly in the skilled (or "anointed") hands of the practitioner. I heard, during that time, of one minister advising a fellow minister to add leg-lengthening to his repertoire, as it (he claimed) really got his congregation excited to see this done. He advised that it was easy to do, simply by holding the feet at an angle, in relation to the pelvis, where one leg appeared longer than the other, and then imperceptibly moving them both sideways into a more squared alignment with the hips, so that one leg appeared to grow longer (or the other appeared to grow shorter—either way, he said, it worked like a charm!).
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Thanks for sharing that Steve. Maybe I'll try that at church on Sunday (j/k of course).
It seems that leg lengthening may be the rage yet again- i hear stories about it a lot lately. x-rays-- show me x-rays.
Steve- I am curious-- during the Jesus movement were there stories of strange manifestations, or was it simply more of a discipleship movement?
TK
It seems that leg lengthening may be the rage yet again- i hear stories about it a lot lately. x-rays-- show me x-rays.
Steve- I am curious-- during the Jesus movement were there stories of strange manifestations, or was it simply more of a discipleship movement?
TK
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Miracle stories were not as common at Calvary Chapel as they are in some charismatic groups. The miracles we heard about were mostly not weird type stuff; more like biblical healings. No leg-lengthening that I can recall. I heard about that outside the Calvary circles, after the Jesus Movement had mostly fizzled out. Chuck Smith mentioned, once, a couple of miracles that had occurred earlier in his ministry. They were the regeneration of a finger, completely severed at the first knuckle, and the regeneration of a real eye in place of a glass eye. Chuck did not talk much about these things, and continually said that God had denied his frequent requests, as a younger minister, to be given the gifts of miraculous healings. He said that God told him his gift was that of a teacher, not of a healer.
It was more common to hear reports of miracles performed outside of church by the rank-and-file of the Jesus People, or else by Lonnie Frisbee. I don't remember Lonnie talking a lot, in the early days, about his own miracles, though stories circulated by others about his having raised the dead and opened blind eyes, during his ministry trips to Africa. Healings through Lonnie were commonly reported, but these were often done during the week outside of the church, on the street, at the beach, or in one of the ministry houses.
I do remember a few reports of people's receiving gold fillings in their teeth at a few of Lonnie's meetings, but this was not common, and we never heard of gold dust appearing in the room.
It was Lonnie's special interest in the miraculous that put a strain between him and Chuck Smith, who thought Lonnie's ministry was not sufficiently Word-centered, and was beginning to look like the Pentecostal carnivals around which Chuck had been raised, and which he was trying to avoid. It was this difference of emphasis that caused John Wimber (along with other Calvary pastors) to branch off of the Calvary movement and to become a Vineyard pastor instead.
Many of us in the movement would be hard-pressed to identify one actual, indisputable miracle that took place before our eyes, though we heard about them from witnesses that we knew and trusted, and had no doubt of their reality. We just weren't out looking for dazzling displays of power. Most of us were fascinated with Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the scriptures. We would have liked to see more miracles, but we generally did not go looking for them. Of course, all of us commonly testified to providential answers to prayer, which always seemed, to us, to bear the character of a "miracle," in the sense of "a supernatural divine intervention," but I am generally reserving the word miracle to refer to a clear suspension of natural processes or laws.
It was more common to hear reports of miracles performed outside of church by the rank-and-file of the Jesus People, or else by Lonnie Frisbee. I don't remember Lonnie talking a lot, in the early days, about his own miracles, though stories circulated by others about his having raised the dead and opened blind eyes, during his ministry trips to Africa. Healings through Lonnie were commonly reported, but these were often done during the week outside of the church, on the street, at the beach, or in one of the ministry houses.
I do remember a few reports of people's receiving gold fillings in their teeth at a few of Lonnie's meetings, but this was not common, and we never heard of gold dust appearing in the room.
It was Lonnie's special interest in the miraculous that put a strain between him and Chuck Smith, who thought Lonnie's ministry was not sufficiently Word-centered, and was beginning to look like the Pentecostal carnivals around which Chuck had been raised, and which he was trying to avoid. It was this difference of emphasis that caused John Wimber (along with other Calvary pastors) to branch off of the Calvary movement and to become a Vineyard pastor instead.
Many of us in the movement would be hard-pressed to identify one actual, indisputable miracle that took place before our eyes, though we heard about them from witnesses that we knew and trusted, and had no doubt of their reality. We just weren't out looking for dazzling displays of power. Most of us were fascinated with Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the scriptures. We would have liked to see more miracles, but we generally did not go looking for them. Of course, all of us commonly testified to providential answers to prayer, which always seemed, to us, to bear the character of a "miracle," in the sense of "a supernatural divine intervention," but I am generally reserving the word miracle to refer to a clear suspension of natural processes or laws.
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Awesome Steve-- thanks!
TK
TK